A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

They used a picture that was wrong. There's nothing sinister about it.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.